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See also

Research at the Department for Continuing Education

The Department has an active interdisciplinary research community, particularly with respect to public engagement and practitioner-based initiatives which build on the research interests of our academic staff and over 80 research students.

Get Blogging

Overview

'Get Blogging' is a practical, hands-on course that shows you how to start and write a successful blog to improve your profile, credibility or website ranking on search engines be you an academic, business, or just blogging for fun.

The course begins with a short overview of the benefits of blogging, and quickly gets gets you started on your own blog, using Wordpress.

During the day you will also learn, for example, how to expand your blogs content with links, photos and video content and; how to improve its design and features with widgets.

Training is provided by means of classroom teaching and practical exercises carried out under guidance.

The sessions cover: What is a blog / The benefits of blogging; how to set up a blog; increasing your blogs effectiveness and how to keep your blog going.

The only prerequisites for this course are enthusiasm, a working knowledge of computers and a readiness to learn new software.

Please note

Our computers are PCs and not Apple Macintosh.

Delegates without an existing wordpress blog also need to be able to access their email accounts to register a new blog. Please come with all the information you need to log-in to or create your blog (website, password details).

Comments from past participants:

"It is a great course. I had no idea on blogging but I could successfully start my blog the next day."

"This was a brilliant day. I've tried to learn how to set up a Wordpress blog before and got confused with the options. I cant believe how much I learnt. Thank you."

"It was an excellent course, run very competently and patiently by the tutor."

Programme details

9.45am Registration

10.00am Blogging definitions and essentials
What is a blog?
Why blog Why bother?

11.00 am Coffee/tea

11.20am Getting started
Where to host?
Whose software to use?
Write your first blog
Know your audience
What to blog about?

Tutors

Mr Robert Bullard

Tutor

Robert Bullard is an Oxford based writer, editor and trainer in writing skills (perfecttext.org). He has been helping businesses and individuals with their writing since 2003, drawing on his previous experience as a feature writer for national broadsheet newspapers and websites, including the Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. He gives several training courses for the Department of Continuing Education.

Cezar Ionescu

Director of Studies

Associate Professor of Data Science, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford

Dr Cezar Ionescu is Associate Professor of Data Science at the Department for Continuing Education and Director of Studies in Computing and Mathematics.